Opinion Paper. Pragmatic observations on theoretical research in information science

Vladimir Slamecka

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975, vol. 26, issue 6, 318-320

Abstract: The likelihood that the development of theoretical foundations for information science is a distant goal suggests that the near‐term objectives of the information research community should be formulated more realistically. Since the task of science is increasingly being determined by urgent, and changing, social concerns, these objectives should be formulated within a socially utilitarian framework and within a problem domain different from that which has sustained information research in the past 15 years. The imminent societal imperative, management of knowledge as a social resource, appears to be a viable new framework for defining major roles and tasks for theory‐oriented work in information science.

Date: 1975
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